Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Togo and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Gastr Del Sol to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Dave Clark Five,
Public Enemy,
LL Cool J,
Amon Düül,
Jerry's Kids,
Yazoo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Susan Cadogan,
Sight & Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
The Leaves,
These Immortal Souls,
Terry Callier,
Radiohead,
Minor Threat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oblivians,
The Buckinghams,
Alton Ellis,
Dark Day,
Barry Ungar,
Circle Jerks,
Crime,
Letta Mbulu,
Inner City,
Marmalade,
Judy Mowatt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pussy Galore,
Brass Construction,
Icehouse,
Matthew Halsall,
Janne Schatter,
Television,
Mars,
Mark Hollis,
Al Stewart,
La Düsseldorf,
Guru Guru,
The Music Machine,
Ituana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aswad,
Lucky Dragons,
Parry Music,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alison Limerick,
X-Ray Spex,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Excepter,
Davy DMX,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Albert Ayler,
Yellowson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.